Monarch School, Children First Academy And Other Schools For Homeless Kids See Enrollment Hike

Schools For Homeless Students Grow By As Much As 74 Percent

When Sarita Fuentes thinks of homelessness, she doesn't conjure the stereotypical image of a disheveled older man pushing a shopping cart through an urban neighborhood--she thinks of her students.

"What I see are these babies--elementary school children and their siblings," said Ms. Fuentes, the co-principal and CEO of Monarch School, a San Diego-based, public K-12 institution that exclusively serves homeless students.

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